Re: Problems Importing table to pgadmin

On 12/07/2016 05:19 PM, metaresolve wrote:
> Uh, yeah, it was a SELECT * from cc_20161207;
>
> I know, it was dumb. I didn't realize it would break it or at least run for
> a while. I tend to do things in small steps, run a query, check my results,
> then tweak.
>
> You're right, I wouldn't want to be viewing those million. so I guess I
> could just be doing the top 10000 rows to get a sense, then be doing my
> aggregate group bys/etc to get my final numbers? That's how I hacked Access
> to be my data analysis program until I got to Alteryx. But I was also never
> using files of 1M then.
>

FYI pgAdmin, if I remember correctly, has a setting that limits the
maximum number of rows that it will fetch at a time.

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